Next year's events that are visible to Californians include a rare peek at Mercury; Venus and Jupiter cozying up; and a total ...

In late December, you can witness a celestial conjunction as Mars passes close to the Beehive Cluster in Cancer the Crab.

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

Let us start by locating the asterism known as the Winter Triangle. You will not require any optical aid, just the naked eye will be sufficient. First look towards the south, just above the rooftops, ...

December will be an interesting month in the sky. Brilliant Venus will be unmistakable, shining in a fully dark sky. It will ...

Mars has now risen to the rank of the fifth brightest object in the pre-midnight evening sky, rivaled only by the moon, Venus, Jupiter and the brightest of all stars, Sirius.

Jupiter's volcanic moon Io doesn't appear to have a subsurface ocean of magma, resolving some issues about how Io's volcanoes erupt and raising broader questions about similar magma oceans within ...

NASA's Juno mission revealed that Jupiter's moon, Io, the most volcanic body in our solar system, doesn't possess a global magma ocean. Instead, separate magma chambers fuel its over 400 active ...

WTOP has been reporting on the sky sightings that have been taking place in New Jersey and now the DMV. People who are not ...

In 1979, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientist Linda Morabito discovered volcanic activity on Jupiter’s innermost moon, Io. But Io isn’t just volcanically active—it is the most ...

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